10 May 2010

DA SEPARATISTS! COALITION WITH DA SEPARATISTS!

From a tweet by Doug Saunders, European Bureau chief with the Globe and Mail, re the outcome of the UK election:

Just to be clear to Canadians: Gordon Brown today proposed a COALITION WITH SEPARATIST PARTIES!!!! And that aspect doesn't bug people here.

So Canadians wait with bated breath for the Brits to do what our politicians haven't the gonads to do: i) negotiate to form a majority coalition government and ii) include in those negotiations reform of the electoral system.

Only THEN might Canadians see such things happening here.In the meantime, we have a government that is run by a party that garnered ONLY 23 PERCENT of the popular vote; and thanks to our Ineffectual Opposition we effectively have a Conservative majority government.

The rest of us are not free of blame. A sufficient number of Canadians clearly don't give a damn.

Chrystal Ocean: Social libertarian; democratic reformer; passionate activist for housing reform, especially for changes in property laws to be more inclusive of housing alternatives; atheist; founder of a group run by and for women in poverty, author of several blogs and a book. Contact | Complete profile

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